TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vasavi, A.R.
TI  - Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India
SN  - 9780195644210
U1  - 306.09548 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Social change
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Ethnology
N1  - I. Introduction --
II. The Millet Drought --
III. Life in the Black-Soil Land --
IV. Seeing Appropriateness --
V. Calling the Rains --
VI. An Enemy Like the Stomach --
VII. Re-Ordering the Land --
VIII. Life in the Drought-Afflicted Land --
IX. Hybrid Times, Hybrid People --
X. Cultural Contestations and Reconstituted Cultures --
A. Major Famines in Bijapur --
B. Hindu-English Months --
C. Classification of Rains --
D. Agro-Rituals in Bijapur
ER  -